[iShotTupac123]

I've lived in the same neighborhood my whole life, so 18 years.

10 years old::: While I was growing up (let's say 10 years old) the neighborhood nobody in my neighborhood even smoked weed. Houses were real cheap so there were alot of colledge kids. They would invite me into their houses and make me icecream and all that. There were also alot of families aswell, and only one kid in the whole neighborhood burned and everyone looked at him as an adict and he ended up getting narced out and arrested. I wasn't one of those 10 year olds with their heads up their ass so I would know if someone was cheifin.

12 years old::: About half of the 13-15 year old kids in my neighborhood suddenly wanted next to nothing to do with me. This was the first generation in my neighborhood of stoners. Not potheads, they weren't smokin everyday. You could honestly say these kids SMOKED weed though.

14 years old::: This is when I start smokin. All the 15-17 year old kids are smokin every day now and they introduced me to it. This is also the BIG turning point for my neighborhood becoming complete crap. We got our first neighborhood drug dealer. Go to his house any time day or night and he's got the greeny green. Along with the drug dealer came a neighborhood gang. They called themselves "The Regulators" they were complete crap, most of them didn't even own a gun. I didn't know any better so I joined up as a "mini regulator" simply beceause I wanted to hang out with the older kids. Regaurdless of all the crap the cops were oblivious as to what was going on and you could literally walk down the street smoking a bowl.

16 years old::: Two of the older gang members got shot to death by some bloods and the gang broke up. The kids who are my age are now true fullblood stoners. The neighborhood drug dealer starts dealing coke and the 17-19 year old kids are getting into it. Ontop of that a second dealer moves in who pushes just about everything known to mankind. He's starting to get a couple people into crack and harder drugs like that, but thankfully most are smart enough to keep away. Some of the kids my age and older find out that selling drugs is an easy way to get money and they start pushin for the two big dealers.

18 years old::: One of the younger ones gets caught on the beach with an ounce of weed and narks on the original bigtime dealer. Ontop of that someone forced some 13 year old retarded kid to smoke and he went crazy, bringing more heat on the hood. For the first time in the 18 years I've lived in this neighborhood the block is hot. And I mean HOT! Ghost cars and everything. Prettymuch everyone in the neighborhood is doing some sort of drug. About half the kids between ages 16-20 are doing low level dealing and not being discreet about it at all.

My neighborhood has turned into THAT neighborhood. Everybody has THAT neighborhood somewhere in their city where when all your dealers are dry your boys say "let's head down to _____ just holler at people and somebodys gunna have shit for sale". Then atleast one of your boys are too scared cuz they have heard some crazy bullshit story about how the neighborhood is dangerous.

I'm not sure I want to know what my hoods gunna be like in 10 years, but at the same time I don't wanna move. I've grown up in this neighborhood and ever since I was old enough to speak I always said "when I move, I'm gunna be goin right down the street". I wanna play basketball like the old days. Now whenever I chill with the kids I grew up with it's completely different. All they wanna do is "get fucked up" "call hoes" ect. They don't want to be normal people anymore and I can safely say more than half the kids I grew up with are now pistol packin drugdealers.